James Markey
@jamesmarkey7.bsky.social
Micah 6:8 - do justice, love kindness, walk humbly.
No king but Christ. Finance dude, geriatric bboy, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes fan.
I have friends everywhere.
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No king but Christ. Finance dude, geriatric bboy, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes fan.
I have friends everywhere.
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James Markey
@jamesmarkey7.bsky.social
· Aug 29
““ ‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
Leviticus 19:33-34 NIV
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Leviticus 19:33-34 NIV
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Leviticus 19:34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. | New International Version (NIV)...
The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
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I’ve got a wild idea here…
What if, now stay with me…
What if Christians were to check the wisdom of the scriptures for how to treat immigrants?
What if, now stay with me…
What if Christians were to check the wisdom of the scriptures for how to treat immigrants?
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Even if you leave the Church and become an evangelical like they are, MAGA still does not consider you human.
The Trump administration arrested and detained two gospel singer brothers from Guatemala who have lived in Memphis for 10 and 20 years. The administration lied and claimed one had an extensive criminal record. Neither does. One has now been deported.
www.psrmemphis.org/christian-si...
www.psrmemphis.org/christian-si...
Christian Singers Caught In Deportation Net, One Branded 'Worst of Worst' - Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis %
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www.psrmemphis.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Even if you leave the Church and become an evangelical like they are, MAGA still does not consider you human.
This quote here is refrigerator worthy.
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This quote here is refrigerator worthy.
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Reporters sticking with X because they get so much engagement from Nigerian America First MAGA accounts.
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reporters sticking with X because they get so much engagement from Nigerian America First MAGA accounts.
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West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.
Yes. An absolute duty!
For over 300 years now, it is a bedrock principle in Anglo-American constitutionalism that obedience is owed according only to law. Refusal to follow an illegal command is not only a moral choice but an absolute duty.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Yes. An absolute duty!
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Tonight on #FridayNightZillow: A trio of cheap, fab Victorians in Wichita, recently named America's most affordable major city, starting at just $190K! Also showing a blank check mansion with its own race track (!) and a lot more, so stick around!🧵
November 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Tonight on #FridayNightZillow: A trio of cheap, fab Victorians in Wichita, recently named America's most affordable major city, starting at just $190K! Also showing a blank check mansion with its own race track (!) and a lot more, so stick around!🧵
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I've had ... the time of my life ...
No, I never felt like this before
Yes, I swear .... it's the truth ...
And I owe it all to you
No, I never felt like this before
Yes, I swear .... it's the truth ...
And I owe it all to you
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I've had ... the time of my life ...
No, I never felt like this before
Yes, I swear .... it's the truth ...
And I owe it all to you
No, I never felt like this before
Yes, I swear .... it's the truth ...
And I owe it all to you
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Year-over-year gains in REAL earnings are slipping: 2.0% last year, 1.3% in July, 1.1% in August, and now 0.8%...
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Year-over-year gains in REAL earnings are slipping: 2.0% last year, 1.3% in July, 1.1% in August, and now 0.8%...
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For Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, monthly CPI values are used to interpolate daily index ratios that determine accrued interest
Without CPI value, regulations for TIPS call for a synthetic number “based on last available 12-mo change in CPI”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Without CPI value, regulations for TIPS call for a synthetic number “based on last available 12-mo change in CPI”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Inflation Traders to Use Untested Fallbacks for Missing CPI
The $7 trillion market for securities linked to US inflation will employ fallback mechanisms for the first time after the longest government shutdown in history derailed economic data collection.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, monthly CPI values are used to interpolate daily index ratios that determine accrued interest
Without CPI value, regulations for TIPS call for a synthetic number “based on last available 12-mo change in CPI”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Without CPI value, regulations for TIPS call for a synthetic number “based on last available 12-mo change in CPI”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Folks, I don’t know how it’s possible, but it gets funnier.
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Stephen Miller must be so disappointed.
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Stephen Miller must be so disappointed.
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1/ The supposed "college grad crisis" is a challenging labor market for young people of all educational levels, driven by cyclically weak hiring.
Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate for HS grads in their late teens was 15.3%, the highest (ex-COVID) since April 2017.
Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate for HS grads in their late teens was 15.3%, the highest (ex-COVID) since April 2017.
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
1/ The supposed "college grad crisis" is a challenging labor market for young people of all educational levels, driven by cyclically weak hiring.
Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate for HS grads in their late teens was 15.3%, the highest (ex-COVID) since April 2017.
Over the past 12 months, the unemployment rate for HS grads in their late teens was 15.3%, the highest (ex-COVID) since April 2017.
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Seasonal strength on tap? Citadel Rubner $SPX
November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Seasonal strength on tap? Citadel Rubner $SPX
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I'm not saying the Trump Administration is stacked with Soviet assets.
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm not saying the Trump Administration is stacked with Soviet assets.
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
I'm just wondering, if they *were* Soviet assets, what would they be doing differently?
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They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
They had misidentified the intern.
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If ICE will threaten to smash the windows of a Superior Court Judge's car, they will do it to anyone and everyone.
Straight madness.
Straight madness.
“ICE agents then surrounded (Superior Court Judge McBurney’s) car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
If ICE will threaten to smash the windows of a Superior Court Judge's car, they will do it to anyone and everyone.
Straight madness.
Straight madness.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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Guys, you can't send people back to measure prices in stores with a time machine. That is literally how the CPI survey works. If you can't understand that stfu about it.
I'm blocking people that quote or reply to this with conspiracist nonsense. You've been warned.
I'm blocking people that quote or reply to this with conspiracist nonsense. You've been warned.
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Guys, you can't send people back to measure prices in stores with a time machine. That is literally how the CPI survey works. If you can't understand that stfu about it.
I'm blocking people that quote or reply to this with conspiracist nonsense. You've been warned.
I'm blocking people that quote or reply to this with conspiracist nonsense. You've been warned.
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If you’re reading this, you’ve made it thru today. Congrats. See you tomorrow
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
If you’re reading this, you’ve made it thru today. Congrats. See you tomorrow
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The official position of the United States government is that swastikas aren't hate symbols and displaying a Pride flag is a fireable offense.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
State-sponsored discrimination encourages private discrimination.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The official position of the United States government is that swastikas aren't hate symbols and displaying a Pride flag is a fireable offense.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
This is not ambiguous signaling.
Can’t have your AI chatbot saying you are better than Jesus and expect something less embarrassing to happen two minutes later.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Can’t have your AI chatbot saying you are better than Jesus and expect something less embarrassing to happen two minutes later.
Y’all.
The loser energy, it’s too much.
The loser energy, it’s too much.
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Y’all.
The loser energy, it’s too much.
The loser energy, it’s too much.
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They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
Absolutely incredible; after shooting Marimar Martinez 5 times and arresting her on claims that she rammed them and pulled a gun, prosecutors have now moved to dismiss ALL criminal charges against her and her codefendant.
New: the govt has moved to dismiss its assault case against Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, two people accused of "box[ing] in" a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago on Oct. 4.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
One agent shot Martinez, with evidence presented to the court that he later bragged about in text messages.
November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.
I think these various threads today on housing costs are important. And I agree with the point below.
Variation in incomes continues to widen. We have to look at cost impact on below-median incomes (perhaps even more like bottom 25%) instead of averages.
A lot of wealthy families in the US!
Variation in incomes continues to widen. We have to look at cost impact on below-median incomes (perhaps even more like bottom 25%) instead of averages.
A lot of wealthy families in the US!
This is wrong Matt. Averages can't describe the problem. It's distributional.
For below-median incomes, housing costs are high even after making significant compromises on size, quality, and location.
And even those numbers are understated if owner costs are part of the computation.
For below-median incomes, housing costs are high even after making significant compromises on size, quality, and location.
And even those numbers are understated if owner costs are part of the computation.
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I think these various threads today on housing costs are important. And I agree with the point below.
Variation in incomes continues to widen. We have to look at cost impact on below-median incomes (perhaps even more like bottom 25%) instead of averages.
A lot of wealthy families in the US!
Variation in incomes continues to widen. We have to look at cost impact on below-median incomes (perhaps even more like bottom 25%) instead of averages.
A lot of wealthy families in the US!